Windows 10: HEVC not playing properly

Hi I have videos from my Samsung phone in HEVC format which are not playing properly in Windows 10. I have bought HEVC codec from Microsoft Store but still these videos are only playing half screen and rest is grey/green color. I can play these videos in VLC player but not in Windows default player and thumbnails of these videos is also not showing up.

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PC for playing HEVC

I don't know about that, my N2930 struggles to smoothly play 1080p HEVC videos.

But my Pentium G4600 plays 4k HEVC just fine, so I'm sure the i3-8100 will easily.

 

HEVC

Thanks for the links and info. The sample is 2160p, HEVC, Main 10@L5.2, 23.97FPS at a bitrate of 51.4Mbps.

HEVC is H265 not H264 it's the new successor to H264.

The ars technica link shows ppl playing video with the same or higher res and fps but not using HEVC which is the main problem since it's a very rough codec to decode.

I am not using DP because I am not using a 4k screen. I am just using my 1080p monitor. I have never though the down scaling as being a resource hog keeping me from playing the video properly.

High error rate? I am not too sure what you mean?

 

Directories with HEVC/x265 or Hi10p/10bit video sluggish

This was working for me in the Anniversary Update and Creators Update, but has been slowly going downhill after the Fall Creators Update (build 1709). After updating to the Fall Creators Update, I could sometimes get thumbnails to show up in Explorer, sometimes
not. I could sometimes get HEVC video to play in Movies & TV and Movie Moments, sometimes not. Now File Explorer won't create any HEVC thumbnails and HEVC video won't play in any of the Microsoft desktop or metro apps.

Here's what I've been able to piece together from a couple of different sources:

• Microsoft removed native HEVC support from the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.
• If you applied a feature update from a previous version (Creators, etc.), you were supposed to retain HEVC support. Wasn't quite true for me, which is how I found this thread. The work-around I mentioned in a previous reply has now stopped working.
• Update KB4041994 enables SOME systems to ADD HEVC support back. There's a hidden app in the Microsoft Store called "HEVC Video Extension". Windows may add it manually. The app only enables HARDWARE HEVC decoding.
  You need a video card or processor released within the last ~year to get it though (Kaby Lake, Kaby Lake Refresh and Coffee Lake, and GPUs like AMD's RX 400, RX 500 and RX Vega 56/64, and Nividia's GeForce GTX 1000 and GTX 950 and 960 series.)
• One of the sources suggests software HEVC decoding might become available as a paid app in the Windows Store in the future. No further info available.

I did a clean install of the Fall Creators Update in Virtualbox. Applied all the updates and installed the "HEVC Video Extension" from the store. MP4 opens in Movies & TV metro app; HEVC video is blank, but HE-AAC audio plays. The slow folder refresh issue
with HEVC files exists.

I have a mid-range desktop processor and video card from early 2013. VLC plays 1080p HEVC using just a couple of percent CPU. I can encode 480p 30FPS in real time using the x.265 Medium preset. My system doesn't need hardware-accelerated encoding / decoding.

As for the original issue. I took someone's suggestion and installed Icaros. Explorer refresh is speedy and I get thumbnails not only for HEVC MP4/MKV, but also FLV (like Icaros claims - anything FFMPEG can decode).

Additional info:

• Microsoft removes HEVC codec in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, adds it to Store - gHacks Tech News
• HEVC and the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update